Training for Stronger Movements, Training for Change

For over 20 years, Training for Change has provided activist training for groups standing up for social, economic, and environmental justice through strategic nonviolence. We’ve led hundreds of workshops and trained thousands of people – from striking steelworkers to interfaith coalitions for immigrant rights – in the skills they need to effectively create change. Using our unique experiential approach, we create learning environments that provide the practical tools and insights that activists can use, as well as opportunities for real growth, transformation, and empowerment.

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Public Workshops

We offer a variety of workshops but we specialize in training trainers, to create a ripple effect in the quality of training in social movements across the world. Every year we organize over a dozen workshops that are open to trainers, organizers, advocates, and educators of all backgrounds and experience levels. Click here to see the full list of public workshops we offer, and to get more information about our annual 17-day Super-T training program.

Custom Workshops

Need a workshop? We can help. We have trainers who are experts in leading workshops on direct action, strategy, campaigning, anti-racism/anti-oppression, community organizing, coalition-building, facilitation skills, and more. Every custom workshop is tailored to meet the specific needs and goals of your group, so that you get the most out of what we can offer. We also do consulting, curriculum design, and one-on-one coaching. Click here to get more information about how to submit an inquiry.

Training Tools

We know there are trainers out there who we will never meet but who are working on their own to expand their toolbox, develop curriculum, and try out new approaches to training challenges. That’s why we post our training tools for free – we encourage you to use and adapt them in whatever way you’d like. You’re welcome to reprint our tools as long as you give us credit.